Hu. Suter et al., A MULTIREFERENCE CONFIGURATION-INTERACTION STUDY OF THE HYPERFINE-STRUCTURE OF THE MOLECULES CCO, CNN, AND NCN IN THEIR TRIPLET GROUND-STATES, The Journal of chemical physics, 101(9), 1994, pp. 7686-7691
The hyperfine structures of the isoelectronic molecules CCO, CNN, and
NCN in their tripler ground states (X(3) Sigma(-)) are investigated by
means of ab initio methods. The infrared frequencies and geometries a
re determined and compared with experiment. Configuration selected mul
tireference configuration interaction calculations in combination with
perturbation theory to correct the wave function (MRD-CI/B-K) employi
ng extended atomic orbital (AO) basis sets yielded very accurate hyper
fine properties. The theoretical values for CCO are in excellent agree
ment with the experimental values determined by Smith and Weltner [J.
Chem. Phys. 62, 4592 (1975)]. For CNN, the first assignment of Smith a
nd Weltner for the two nitrogen atoms has to be changed. A qualitative
discussion of the electronic structure discloses no simple relation b
etween the structure of the singly occupied orbitals and the measured
hyperfine coupling constants. Vibrational effects were found to be of
little importance.